Dr Irene Morra is Reader in English Literature at Cardiff University, UK. She is the author of Britishness, Popular Music, and National Identity: The Making of Modern Britain and Twentieth-Century British Authors and the Rise of Opera in Britain.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Modern Verse Drama in England: The Forgotten Tradition1. Nineteenth Century-Legacies: Spectacle, Sonority and Romantic Reform in the Theatre of Stephen Phillips and James Elroy Flecker2. The New Drama: Social Challenge and Poetic Theatre from W. B. Yeats to Terence Gray3. Georgian Revolt: John Masefield, Shakespeare and Gordon Bottomley’s King Lear’s Wife4. Religious Drama: Theatrical Experimentation and Spiritual Renewal between the Wars5. Music, Politics and the Modern Poet: T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden in the 1930s6. Renaissance and False Dawn: Mainstream Success on the Postwar Stage 7. Anger and Aftermath: Royal Court, National Theatre and Verse Drama after 19568. Tradition and Trajectory: Verse and Dramatic Heritage in Caryl Churchill, Steven Berkoff and Tony Harrison9. The Return of the King: King Charles III and Shakespearean Power and PasticheBibliography

Dr Irene Morra is Reader in English Literature at Cardiff University, UK. She is the author of Britishness, Popular Music, and National Identity: The Making of Modern Britain and Twentieth-Century British Authors and the Rise of Opera in Britain.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Modern Verse Drama in England: The Forgotten Tradition1. Nineteenth Century-Legacies: Spectacle, Sonority and Romantic Reform in the Theatre of Stephen Phillips and James Elroy Flecker2. The New Drama: Social Challenge and Poetic Theatre from W. B. Yeats to Terence Gray3. Georgian Revolt: John Masefield, Shakespeare and Gordon Bottomley’s King Lear’s Wife4. Religious Drama: Theatrical Experimentation and Spiritual Renewal between the Wars5. Music, Politics and the Modern Poet: T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden in the 1930s6. Renaissance and False Dawn: Mainstream Success on the Postwar Stage 7. Anger and Aftermath: Royal Court, National Theatre and Verse Drama after 19568. Tradition and Trajectory: Verse and Dramatic Heritage in Caryl Churchill, Steven Berkoff and Tony Harrison9. The Return of the King: King Charles III and Shakespearean Power and PasticheBibliography

Dr Irene Morra is Reader in English Literature at Cardiff University, UK. She is the author of Britishness, Popular Music, and National Identity: The Making of Modern Britain and Twentieth-Century British Authors and the Rise of Opera in Britain.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Modern Verse Drama in England: The Forgotten Tradition1. Nineteenth Century-Legacies: Spectacle, Sonority and Romantic Reform in the Theatre of Stephen Phillips and James Elroy Flecker2. The New Drama: Social Challenge and Poetic Theatre from W. B. Yeats to Terence Gray3. Georgian Revolt: John Masefield, Shakespeare and Gordon Bottomley’s King Lear’s Wife4. Religious Drama: Theatrical Experimentation and Spiritual Renewal between the Wars5. Music, Politics and the Modern Poet: T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden in the 1930s6. Renaissance and False Dawn: Mainstream Success on the Postwar Stage 7. Anger and Aftermath: Royal Court, National Theatre and Verse Drama after 19568. Tradition and Trajectory: Verse and Dramatic Heritage in Caryl Churchill, Steven Berkoff and Tony Harrison9. The Return of the King: King Charles III and Shakespearean Power and PasticheBibliography